At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, she rose from curator of American art to deputy director.” “After hiding in plain sight on ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Archaeologists studying ancient wells have discovered that some weren’t finished in a single effort. Communities might dig to the current water table, use the well for years ...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The interesting struggles you’ll wage in the coming weeks will require your vulnerability: showing up exactly as you are when you might rather fight or escape. Your warrior ...

A “nineteenth-century Halsted Street building” in Lincoln Park “was Imagist painter Roger Brown’s residence and studio,” marks Block Club. A push to landmark the building began after the School of the ...

$50,000 “Anonymous Was a Woman” Grant To Candida Alvarez “Anonymous Was a Woman, a grant-making organization that provides funding to woman-identifying artists, has revealed fifteen artists who will ...

When Ted Erikson passed away earlier this year, he left behind a legacy of swimming accomplishments. He also took a bit of Chicago history with him. Ted was a fixture among the swimmers at Promontory ...

Expo Chicago has announced the programming for this year’s edition, taking place April 9-12 at Navy Pier. The Dialogues program series include “Bodies As Technology,” with panelists Nick Cave, Dr.

While I ride CTA trains, mostly the Red Line, a few times a week, I was interested in getting a better sense of what conditions are like on the El at other times of the day. So I hung out on the Red ...

It is two-thirty in the morning at Carol’s Pub. Most of the other bars in the neighborhood have closed, and customers of all ages—from twenty-one to sixty—file in to order more beer and whiskey, and ...

It’s a Friday afternoon and two young men from the suburbs are looking for a place to crash later that night, after hitting up the bars in Andersonville and Uptown. A friend recommended The Lodge ...

Frieze has appointed Kate Sierzputowski [Art 50] as director and Essence Harden as curator of Expo Chicago. “Sierzputowski has most recently served as artistic director of the fair,” and was ...

Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the acclaimed Chicago-born artist whose first canvases were the walls of his family’s apartment in the Robert Taylor Homes, will host his first solo museum exhibition in the city ...